The space module which was found “matchless” by museum curators,
found as a three thousand year old space module of the Urartu
Kingdom many headlines to news in the western press. But conclusions
of the Ministry of Arts and Culture Memorial and Museums department
chemical and petro-graphical analyses proved that those theories
didn’t agree with historical reality.

There is various and contradicting information concerning how the
artifact came to the museum.

One of the theories is that an antique
merchant brought it to the museum. The space module, which has five
engines is 23 centimeters long and 9,5 centimeters high. The General
Director of the Museum Ph. D. Alpay Pasinli said that, the
artifact could not be from three thousand years, but rather from 25
years the most.

Pasinli, who said that we should
remember that the western press convinced their public that the
space module was three thousand years old, added that they have
confirmed that this artifact was made out of plaster and marble dust
through the results from analyses.

The space module, which became one of the most popular artifacts of
the Istanbul Archeological Museum and was sought after by
western scientists and media, was written about in tens of Articles
in Europe and became news in many newspapers and television news
casts.

The space module which was sought after
by German and English archeologists in the beginning of the 1990’s
was for a long time secured in the preservation unit of the museum.

The first who succeeded in photographing
the space module was the English Magazine “Fortean
Times”.

The Magazine, which showed a picture of
the sculpture and head lined “Is it an ancient space module?” in
their October 1993 issue was followed by the German magazine
“Magazin 2000”.

After this event the competing firm of
Magazin 2000, G.A.R.L. sent their editor to Istanbul and he shared
his findings with the public.

But almost all of the research and what
was presented to the public was written in this manner:

“It is confirmed that the space ship
that is now in the Istanbul Archeological Museum was found in a
archeological dig made in 1975 in the old city of Tuspa that is
also known as Toprakkale. It is in the northeast of the Van lake
where the Urartu Kingdom spread between 830-612 BC.”

After these allegations were made it was
written that it was in the Istanbul Archeological Museum but not on
public display.

Zecharia Sitchin, linguistic
and Bible scholar and writer of the book “The
12th Planet”, made the greatest research on the
controversial “Space Module”. Sitchin, who came in the beginning of
the 90’s to Turkey came in the forefront of the people that claimed
that the Space Module was three thousand years old.

Sitchin made these remarks after the
sculpture left the preservation unit of the museum and was presented
to him on a velvet tray:

“The object, was made out of a
porous material that could probably be a stone made out of
volcanic ash. The bends and amazing amount of detail disproves
that it was made from raw labor.

Was it really a plaster caste that
came out of a plastic toy as claimed by the museums official
explanations? It doesn’t seem that way."

There are various and contradicting
information concerning how and from where the “Space Module” was
brought to the Istanbul Archeological Museum.

The most popular idea is that an antique
trader brought the sculpture and after realizing that it was fake he
didn’t pursue it. The Space module which is 23 centimeters long, 9,5
centimeters high and 8 centimeters wide has five engines.

There is also a pilot figure on the
small sculpture that has bent his knees reaching its chest.

The clothing of the pilot resembles the
space suits that astronauts wear.